Hello Everyone,

Nice posts and logical thoughts. :)

Sending positive Fedora 16 & 17 to your compuyerss now. ;)

Hmmm, try a google search for
F-18...

Take care
Sincerely,
- David -

> Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:34:18 -0500
> From: inode0@gmail.com
> To: ambassadors@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] The Future of release names
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Jukka Palander <jukka@devspain.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 13:29 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> >> The release name's purpose is not to be used that way though, it never
> >> has been intended for that as our website demonstrates. The fact that
> >> few people refer to the release name when discussing Fedora isn't
> >> really relevant to whether we should have a release name. It certainly
> >> wasn't the standard of value used prior to now.
> >
> > Why the release name is in there then? ..not for the "website
> > demonstrates" (whatever it means) and not for the discussions (when
> > people _will_ say the _number_ what they are using or suggesting instead
> > than _name_) ??? Please tell me why, why?
>
> There are a number of reasons and I won't pretend to know them all but
> here are a few.
>
> (1) Contributors report that when they were new to the project
> participating in the selection of our release name made them feel like
> they were a part of our community. This isn't a small thing. Welcoming
> new contributors and making them quickly feel like they belong to the
> Fedora community is worth doing even if we don't do anything of any
> importance with the release name beyond letting the community select
> it and announcing what it is.
>
> (2) Media reports announcing the new release name almost always
> include the fact that Fedora is different from other distributions by
> letting its community select its release names. This regular reminder
> that our project governance is different from other communities by
> engaging the community in decision making (even if this particular
> decision is of no importance) is another nice thing for our project.
> It plants the seed in people's minds that there is something different
> about the Fedora Project and its community.
>
> (3) Sometimes the release name has provided nice inspiration for
> design/artwork. Other times it hasn't. Whether this is a plus or a
> minus is open to debate, but it has been a historical use of the
> release name.
>
> > I strongly suggest that we should go into our own paths and simply throw
> > "naming" to the bin. If other distributions (whatever OS) keep their
> > naming, why should we do the same?
> > We want to be first and in here we can be first to go out from those
> > stupid names. We could (and should) simplify things in here as well.
> >
> > ...and by making things simple for the common users; It really is the
> > Fedora way!
>
> We are the only community selected release name. I'd say keeping it
> that way preserves our place as not only being the first to do it but
> the only distribution to do it. :)
>
> John
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